Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2016
From insideHPC
Seagate Demonstrates 10 GB/sec SSD Flash Drive for OCP
Today Seagate unveiled a production-ready unit of the fastest single solid-state drive (SSD) demonstrated to date, with throughput performance of 10 gigabytes per second. The early unit meets Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications…
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for ISC 2016
Registration now open for ISC High Performance, the largest high performance computing forum in Europe. By registering between now and May 11, attendees can save over 45 percent off the onsite registration rates. Now in its …
From Putting People First
Behavioral modeling – Shaping cultural change and behavioral evolution
One of the things we do here at Experientia that really sets us apart from other UX agencies is behavioral modeling. Our cognitive and behavioral models go beyond the standard customer journeys and personas (both useful tools…
From insideHPC
Flash Storage Arrays in HPC Applications
In this week’s Sponsored Post, Katie Garrison of One Stop Systems explains how Flash storage arrays are becoming more accessible as the economics of Flash becomes more attractive. "Comprised of a unique combination of a Haswell…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on the Business Internet of Things
Cisco has a new Internet of Things white paper. (Registration required) Good, non-technical introduction. It is likely Cisco will be a major player in this space, both in industry and in the home, so their view is useful."…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Web plasticity
When the Internet started out, people wanted to use it to chat and discuss. So we did as human beings had always done. We created tribes. In this manner, we got newsgroups, posting boards and so forth. This worked very well at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Mobile Trends Need Cognitive and Analytics
Seven Mobile Trends That Will Change How Consumers and Brands InteractAs Mobile World Congress Gets Started, Mobile Innovation Is Far From Over ...I note that a number of these trends, like chatbots and advanced messaging, include…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Organizations
What is the meaning of a cognitive organization? Can it have direct conversations with us, and also attentively watch and let us know what is useful, and perhaps most problematically, tell us what to do? The Cognitive Organization…
From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Professional Bridge
Interesting article on detecting cheaters in professional bridge using big-data analysis. Basically, a big part of the game is the communication of information between the partners. But only certain communications channels are…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for OpenFabrics Workshop in Monterey
The 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop has posted their speaker agenda with session abstracts. The event takes place April 4-8, 2016 in Monterey, California. "The Workshop is the premier event for collaboration between OpenFabrics Software…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Who Needs a Real Class To Learn Computing?
You hear it all the time “all the resources you need to learn computer science are online!” and “you can get help from professionals in online forums.” Sure you can. It’s all true. Does it work in real life? Absolutely! DoesFriction…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report on the Use of Voice Assistants
An interesting report on the increasing use of voice assistants. Is this the interaction channel that will become common in the future. By Mindmeld, a well known player in the space, I am continuing to experiment with voice…
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Research on the Economics of Privacy
New paper: "The Economics of Privacy, by Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis R. Taylor, and Liad Wagman: Abstract: This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of empirical and theoretical research on the economics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A History of Machine Learning. What is Machine Learning?
Bernard Marr in Fortune: A short history of Machine Learning. This certainly alerts managers to the direction and speed of how this area is starting to move. The examples shown are excellent. My only caution is that 'learning'…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Matter of Agreement
On the 2015 Turing Award Mirror image of source Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle publicly broke the yoke of symmetry in cryptography in the 1970s. Their work created the era of modern cryptography—all previous…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Register Now for the Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam
The registration for the Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam (GCTC) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Gaithersburg, MD on March 22-23, 2016 is now open. The Tech Jam will provide opportunities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine: Analytics in the Cloud
The cover story of the March/April issue of Analytics magazine focuses on predictive analytics in the cloud and how every business is now a data business, whether they know it or not. You can also read about the "power company"…
From insideHPC
STAR-CCM+ Moves to the Cloud with ACTnowHPC
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced it has partnered with CD-adapco to offer the company’s industry-leading engineering simulation software solution, STAR-CCM+, to customers using Advanced Clustering’s on demand …
From insideHPC
Video: Boosting HPC with Cloud
"Rescale provides a unified HPC simulation platform for the Enterprise IT environment. Rescale’s platform integrates with existing job schedulers to burst workloads to cloud computing resources. We provide high performance computing…
From insideHPC
ASRock Rack Joins Open Compute Project U.S. Summit 2016
At the Open Compute Project Summit this week, ASRock Rack will showcase its OCP3-1L and OCP3-6S servers for cloud-based datacenter and High Performance Computing. The event is the annual gathering for industry’s top leaders to…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Introduces Open Composable Networks for OCP Platforms
Today Mellanox unveiled its next-generation Open Composable Networks (OCN) platform at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit. OCN delivers ground-breaking open network platforms for enterprises and service providers to unlock…
From insideHPC
E4 Computer Engineering to Distribute BOXX Technologies in Italy and Switzerland
Today E4 Computer Engineering announced that it has recently sealed an agreement with BOXX Technologies to become their exclusive manufacturing and distribution partner for Italy and Switzerland. As one of the world’s leading…
From Computational Complexity
When do we care about the constants?
I've been reading two books recently: Asymptopia by Joel Spencer (He turns 70 soon! Workshop for it!. My nephew things that celebrating your bday with a workshop would be... odd) and The Joy of Factoring by Simon Wagtaff.Asymptopia…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and the Smart Home
In SiliconAngle: Amazon continues to ride ahead on improved smart home efforts, Exceeding Apple and Google efforts. A short overview. Ultimately Amazon has gotten me to experiment with more methods than any other smart capabilities…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 March 2016
Well last week was a busy one. I spent the first few days in Memphis working on the K-12 CS Curriculum Framework. (Blogged about that at Writing the K12 CS Framework). Then school. Saturday I attended an unconference – EdCamp…
From The Eponymous Pickle
E Mail Inventor Dies
I remember being introduced to E mail at the Pentagon in about 1974. Was used then to simply alert people about test results for software and arrange new experiments. Previous to that we messaged the people running the machines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mass Data Simulations
In DSC: Fascinating piece on ' Mass Data Simulation'. The earliest part of my career used monte carlo simulation linked with parameterized data, to predict outcomes. The data involved was 'small', but the results were certainly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aeron Chair
In FastCodesign: A look at the history of Herman Miller's iconic Aeron Chair. Known for being common in pre crash startups. We worked with Herman Miller in the innovation space and put some of their designs in our spaces to…
From CERIAS Blog
Another year, another RSAC
I have attended 10 of the last 15 RSA conferences. I do this to see what’s new in the market, meet up with friends and colleagues I don’t get to see too often, listen to some technical talks, and enjoy a few interesting restaurants…
From CERIAS Blog
Another year, another RSAC
I have attended 10 of the last 15 RSA conferences. I do this to see what’s new in the market, meet up with friends and colleagues I don’t get to see too often, listen to some technical talks, and enjoy a few interesting restaurants…